I was wondering how to solve the following problem…
I have a login system which uses MD5 + salts to store my users passwords
in the database. Also I am working with profiles for my users which they
can change.
Everything goes quite okay except when we reach the change_profile bit
of the application. Because the user model has validations it performs
on the password it starts throwing error when a user views the
change_profile page. The errors are there as soon as the page is loaded,
even before the form gets submitted.
3 errors prohibited this candidate from being saved
There were problems with the following fields:
* Password confirmation can't be blank
* Password can't be blank
* Password is too short (minimum is 4 characters)
Is there a way to stop the model from using it’s password validations
whenever a user is changing his profile? I tried to exclude the password
fields from the change_profile form, but this still generates the same
errors…
Because the user model has validations it performs
on the password it starts throwing error when a user
views the change_profile page. The errors are there
as soon as the page is loaded, even before the form
gets submitted.
3 errors prohibited this candidate from being saved
Is there a way to stop the model from using it’s password
validations whenever a user is changing his profile?
Sorry to be dense, but I’m not getting a clear picture here and need to
ask
a couple of questions. Is the password stored in the User model? Is
the
profile part of the User model? Validations get run on three events:
create, update, and save. You must be doing one of those to get the
errors
you’re getting. Which doesn’t make sense given your description of the
situation. Or maybe I just haven’t gotten enough caffine into the
system
yet At any rate, you can specify which event(s) trigger the
validation(s) in your validate methods. Check the
ActiveRecord::Validations::ClassMethods documentation at http://api.rubyonrails.org/
Because the user model has validations it performs
on the password it starts throwing error when a user
views the change_profile page. The errors are there
as soon as the page is loaded, even before the form
gets submitted.
3 errors prohibited this candidate from being saved
Is there a way to stop the model from using it’s password
validations whenever a user is changing his profile?
Sorry to be dense, but I’m not getting a clear picture here and need to
ask
a couple of questions. Is the password stored in the User model? Is
the
profile part of the User model? Validations get run on three events:
create, update, and save. You must be doing one of those to get the
errors
you’re getting. Which doesn’t make sense given your description of the
situation. Or maybe I just haven’t gotten enough caffine into the
system
yet At any rate, you can specify which event(s) trigger the
validation(s) in your validate methods. Check the
ActiveRecord::Validations::ClassMethods documentation at http://api.rubyonrails.org/
hth,
Bill
Hey, thanks for replying… I believe one of the members on our team has
already resolved the problem. The problem was pretty complex and at the
moment I just do not have the time to completely detail it for you…
Anyways, thanks again for replying, you’ll probably see me back here
Ow and about the coffee, I guess that must be one of the reasons for
basically everything, goigng to “the machine” right now myself…
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At any rate, you can specify which event(s) trigger the